LETTER: Children should eat healthy food every day

Monday

Feb 18, 2013 at 12:01 AMFeb 18, 2013 at 7:59 PM

It’s a great thing to serve breakfast and lunch in public schools, but schools should serve only healthy food for their students. Children learn everything in school, so it’s an important thing to teach them how they should eat and when.

Also, they should teach them about the side effects of being overweight for everybody, and how it causes many diseases, like diabetes, blood pressure, heart diseases and many others. All of us in North Carolina should follow the slogan that says “Eat smart, move more, live healthy.”

According to the N.C. Nutrition and Physical activity surveillance system, teenagers in North Carolina are overweight. One in five children ages 5 to 11 are overweight. Another study showed that North Carolina has the 11th highest childhood obesity rate in the nation, with one-third of children being overweight or obese.

We all should work together to help our children eat in a healthy way, because being overweight is not just a physical issue. It can affect a child’s emotional, mental and social well-being. Finally children, school and parents must make positive lifestyle changes — together.

Eman al Sallal Gastonia

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